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In Conversation: Joe Namy

Joe Namy’s art engages with the healing energies of music and the dance floor.

Often the dance floor is seen as a place for escape, but I’m more interested in how it’s used for solidarity and community. There’s a risk at play here, an infectious connection, a social code that gets passed on and personalized. That gravity is what brings us down, the floor is what holds us up.

— Joe Namy

 

The art of London-based Lebanese American artist Joe Namy (b. 1978, Detroit) critically engages with the gender dynamics of sound; the migration patterns of instruments; and the translation between languages, between score and sound, and between instruments and bodies in movement and dance.


Top image: Installation view of Rave into the Future: Art in Motion, October 24, 2025–January 12, 2026. Photograph by Kevin Candland, © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. 


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